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Amida is the mom to three darn kids. She used to stress about state standards and test scores but has since come to her senses and enjoys blogging about her family's journey into unschooling.

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First Day of School

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Written by contributer Amida of Journey Into Unschooling By now, a lot of you have probably started school again. If you took the summer easy like we did, you might have found it a little difficult to jump start the ol’ school bus. Sure, we knew the day was approaching but even so, it caught [...]

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Moms Just Wanna Have Fun

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Written by contributor Amida of Journey into Unschooling. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Some days, we don’t do any school-related work at all. These aren’t planned in advanced and they aren’t penciled in on the calendar. These days are brought on by my own inspirations and happen as spontaneous as those [...]

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Making Summer Goals

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Written by contributor Amida of Journey into Unschooling It’s the last day of school for us, which brings us relief and freedom from the shackles of “required learning,” materials we need to cover to satisfy the school requirements. But what to do with the two-three months ahead? Usually we have a somewhat relaxed homeschool during [...]

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Don’t Know Much About History Resources (2011 Curriculum Fair)

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Written by Simple Homeschool contributor Amida of Journey Into Unschooling Ages of my children: 12, 9, 4, and 5 months Educational Philosophies I Pull From: Unschooling, Eclectic History was never my strong point. I blame it on all the instructors who pretty much killed the subject for me, like elementary school teachers who had us [...]

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Testing, One, Two, Three

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Written by contributor Amida of Journey Into Unschooling It’s that time of the year — standardized testing. The process itself has been ever-changing for us. When we first started, I really wanted my son tested. It meant he was doing fine and I wasn’t ruining him by keeping him out of school. But later I [...]

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Homeschooling on a Deserted Island

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Written by Amida of Journey Into Unschooling I‘ve been thinking a lot about simplicity. It seems to be a popular theme these days that is being applied to just about everything, including living arrangements, child-rearing, diet, and life pursuits. A big component of the movement is reduction — making do with less and editing our [...]

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